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Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District | 137 S. Ct. 988 (2017)

In nineteen eighty-two, the Supreme Court held in Board of Education versus Rowley that students with disabilities are entitled to a free appropriate public education. Thirty-five years later, the Supreme Court clarified the standard for determining whether a school enabled a student with disabilities to make appropriate educational progress in Endrew F. versus Douglas County School District.

Endrew F., a child with autism, attended school in the Douglas County School District, which provided Endrew with an individualized education program, or I E P. Endrew’s parents failed to see meaningful educational progress after fourth grade, and Endrew’s behavior began impeding his ability to learn within a general education classroom. However, the school district’s proposed I E P for fifth grade contained the same objectives from previous years. Endrew’s parents moved him from his public school to Firefly House, a specialized private school for children with autism. The private school designed and implemented strategies to address Endrew’s behavioral problems, allowing him to make significant academic progress. The public school district presented Endrew’s parents with a new I E P. However, the new IEP failed to include any meaningful changes or propose using any of the approaches that had supported Endrew’s progress at Firefly House.

Endrew’s parents filed a complaint for reimbursement for the Firefly House tuition under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or I D E A. The state department of education denied the claim, and Endrew’s parents filed a lawsuit in federal court. The district court ruled that the school district satisfied the requirements of the I D E A because it held annual reviews of his I E P and because the I E P provided Endrew with some educational benefit. The Tenth Circuit affirmed, and the Supreme Court granted cert.

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